2016-12-10T01:09:43.000000Z
Activists planning the "Women's March on Washington" and those protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump won't be able to do so near some of DC's most iconic monuments, a National Park Service official said.

2016-12-10T01:01:58.000000Z
Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Friday -- albeit not for himself -- for one event in Louisiana, where the President-elect suggested that early voting in a number of states could have led to fraud, a baseless claim that has visibly bothered him for weeks.

2016-12-10T00:59:26.000000Z
Nothing will erase her memory of the boyfriend she lost in the devastating Oakland warehouse fire. Saya Tomioka now has a keepsake of their time together, thanks to the collective power of strangers.

2016-12-10T00:46:50.000000Z
A threat of a government shutdown ended Friday evening, according to top Democratic senators, who conceded they lacked the support to block a funding bill that must pass by midnight to avert a potential crisis.

2016-12-10T00:39:27.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump's financial arrangement with "Celebrity Apprentice" could provide him with a cut of the money generated by NBC's product integration deals for the show.

2016-12-10T00:36:14.000000Z
Following the passing of John Glenn, Gene Seymour reflects on the astronaut-turned-politician's unusually generous and empathic disposition -- even toward his worst critics.

2016-12-09T23:26:03.000000Z
Democrats’ willingness to take the nation to the brink of a government shutdown signaled their intention to quickly leverage the sorts of issues that propelled Donald J. Trump to victory.

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2016-12-09T22:00:40.000000Z
Jolyon Maugham QC to go through Irish courts with issue of whether Brexit can be reversed after article 50 is triggeredIrish courts are to be asked to intervene in the UK’s legally complex Brexit process in a new appeal aimed at reaching the European court of justice in Luxembourg.The application, w...

2016-12-09T20:38:15.000000Z
Scotland’s first minister and US president-elect said to have discussed their nations’ longstanding relationshipDonald Trump and Nicola Sturgeon have spoken for the first time since the US election. The president-elect called Scotland’s first minister on Friday for what aides described as “a brief i...

2016-12-09T20:35:29.000000Z
Scotland Yard say witnesses are already coming forward but no arrests have been madeA 21-year-old man has died after being shot on a busy street in London, police said.The victim was shot by a lone gunman as he walked down the road in Kilburn, north-west London, on Thursday evening, Scotland Yard sa...

2016-12-09T19:38:04.000000Z
Share price jumps 30% as US media company reaches agreement on deal to create UK’s most powerful media groupRupert Murdoch swooped in with an £11.2bn offer to take full control of the satellite broadcaster Sky, five years after he was forced to abandon a similar deal amid public revulsion over the p...

2016-12-09T19:23:54.000000Z
Former party leader ‘having a great time’ not having to deal with people ‘who use me as a vehicle for their own self-promotion’Nigel Farage has said he is relieved to no longer be Ukip leader because it had meant “having to deal with low-grade people every day”, in an interview where he said his £85...

2016-12-09T19:10:25.000000Z
The benefit sanctions system is a damaging, expensive failure. Churches, as well as charities, see daily the human cost of this failure in people left without enough money to buy the very basics of life. The recent National Audit Office report has now shown that taxpayers also bear a financial cost ...

2016-12-09T19:10:02.000000Z
After a week of intense scrutiny of Brexit arrangements, this Saturday’s observance of Human Rights Day provides a welcome pause to reflect on the role the UK should play on the international stage. This is especially important when we consider how global businesses based in the UK or listed on the ...

2016-12-09T18:58:29.000000Z
MP was invited to private meeting about Brexit strategy then disinvited after she hit out at Theresa May’s cowhide legwearNicky Morgan, the former education secretary, has been dropped from a list of moderate Conservative MPs who are set for a private meeting with the prime minister next Wednesday, ...

2016-12-10T00:36:14.000000Z
Just about all of the tributes to John Glenn have focused on the first act of his long and illustrious career. And it's easy to understand why. That first act is one of the most beautiful of American stories, carrying him from his small town in the middle of Ohio to his ascension to international fa...

2016-12-09T22:55:33.000000Z
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has removed himself from consideration for a position in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, Trump announced in a statement Friday.

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2016-12-10T00:43:26.000000Z
Jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of Dylann Roof watched a video on Friday of the avowed white supremacist confessing to killing nine parishioners at a historic black church in South Carolina and saying he felt he "had to do it."
Roof told investigators after his arrest for the June 17, 2015,...

2016-12-10T00:23:42.000000Z
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely ask a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world's largest economy, a transition official said on Friday.
Trump's pick of Goldman President Gary C...

2016-12-10T00:10:02.000000Z
The rebel-held enclave in East Aleppo has contracted by 75 percent in the last 10 days. Syrian government forces and their allies continue to press home their advantage through a brutal combination of aerial bombardment and siege warfare.
With defeat looming, rebel groups are negotiating terms over...

2016-12-09T23:56:42.000000Z
The Syrian army pressed an offensive in Aleppo on Friday with ground fighting and air strikes in an operation to retake all of the city's rebel-held east that would bring victory in the civil war closer for President Bashar al-Assad.
"The advance is going according to plan and is sometimes faster t...

2016-12-09T22:51:33.000000Z
Donald Trump's threats to battle Mexico over trade, investment and jobs have pushed a growing number of companies operating in the country to put expansionplans on hold until the president-elect fleshes out his policies, business leaders have told Reuters since the Nov. 8 election.
Pledging to reca...

2016-12-09T22:12:39.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to put his signature on the U.S. judicial system, and particularly the Supreme Court, after he takes office in January. During his term, he is expected to nominate hundreds of federal judges, beginning with filling the high court seat left vacant in F...

2016-12-09T21:12:30.000000Z
Legislators attempting to restrict access to abortion have terrified pro-choice advocates in New Jersey and Ohio. While both states' efforts have yet to be signed by their respective governors, here’s a guide to what has happened in the past week:
Ohio's 'Heartbeat Bill'
On Tuesday, Republican la...

2016-12-09T20:39:22.000000Z
A lot was written during the presidential campaign about the end of norms. It was a norm for a presidential candidate to release his or her taxes; now it isn’t. It was a norm to divest one’s assets and put them in a blind trust; now it isn’t. It was a norm for a president-elect to sit through daily ...

2016-12-09T20:35:44.000000Z
In late November, Airbnb announced that it would begin to offer “Experiences” that allow users to spend a few days with locals in a given city, immersed in their lives. Finally, value can be extracted from formerly worthless pursuits like singing in a jazz band or writing poetry.
Related: Cities' r...

2016-12-09T20:10:40.000000Z
The NFL announced on Friday that it will play four regular season games in 2017, continuing the steady expansion of its presence in the U.K.
The league's first overseas game was played in 2007, when London's Wembley Stadium hosted the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins. The stadium continued to hos...

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2016-12-10T00:20:21.000000Z
The impeachment of South Korea’s president is the latest hit to global political order following populist referendum victories in the U.K. and Italy and Donald Trump’s election.

2016-12-09T23:40:16.000000Z
The anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on Sunday threatens to trigger a rift with the U.S. and Europe over whether Beijing should gain “market-economy status.”

2016-12-09T23:07:28.000000Z
More than 1,000 Russian athletes across more than two dozen sports benefited from a state-sponsored doping program between 2011 and 2015, according a new report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

2016-12-09T22:18:53.000000Z
Now that rescue and medical operations have all but ceased in the rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, many of the estimated 150,000 civilians left there can hope only for a quick end.

2016-12-09T20:44:08.000000Z
Authorities have identified 83 suspects linked to allegations of child abuse at professional and amateur soccer teams, British police said, in an escalating scandal that is again rattling trust in a pillar of British society.

2016-12-09T19:41:03.000000Z
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders was found guilty of insulting and inciting discrimination against Moroccans in a verdict that could strengthen his poll numbers ahead of general election in the Netherlands.

2016-12-09T18:48:21.000000Z
Canada’s Liberal government and the bulk of provinces are set to endorse a pact late Friday to fight climate change, even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to revive the energy sector with the recent approval of two pipeline projects.

2016-12-09T18:26:38.000000Z
Southeast Asian officials hunkered together to assess where the region stands in the wake of global shocks, including the near-certain death of a trade deal with the U.S. following the election of Donald Trump as president.

2016-12-09T22:49:06.000000Z
With the Parliament in South Korea voting to impeach President Park Geun-hye, the cavalcade of scandals can make it seem like the world’s politicians have suddenly become greedier en masse.

2016-12-09T21:26:40.000000Z
Questions about how news outlets reported, or didn’t report, on a rape and murder suspect from Afghanistan underscored a rift over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy on newcomers.

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2016-12-10T01:05:03.000000Z
Google and the Cuban government have struck a deal giving Cubans faster access to the internet giant's content, two people familiar with the agreement said Friday. Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent ...

2016-12-10T01:00:41.000000Z
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gambia's ruler of more than 22 years announced late Friday that he no longer accepts defeat in the country's presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded to his rival.

2016-12-10T00:50:38.000000Z
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh announced he was rejecting the results of a Dec. 1 election which he lost to President-elect Adama Barrow. Senegal's Foreign Minister, Mankeur Ndiaye, speaking on ...

2016-12-10T00:50:06.000000Z
Researchers have discovered the partial tail of a feathered dinosaur that was preserved in amber some 99 million years ago, according to a study released Thursday. "This is a new source of information that is worth researching with intensity and protecting as a fossil resource," said Ryan McKellar, ...

2016-12-10T00:47:39.000000Z
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Large crowds are expected to gather in South Korea's capital to celebrate the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye over an explosive corruption scandal that saw millions protest in previous weeks. Protesters on Saturday are planning to march near the Seoul presidential pa...

2016-12-10T00:45:15.000000Z
Antonio Conte has called on Chelsea to underline their status as favourites for the Premier League title with an dominant display against West Bromwich Albion on Sunday. Conte's side are three points clear at the top after a blistering run of eight successive victories including last weekend's impre...

2016-12-10T00:37:30.000000Z
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The government on Friday agreed a deal with eight of Canada's 10 provinces to introduce its first national carbon price, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. Trudeau has said the move will help Canada meet its international climate change obligations. T...

2016-12-10T00:30:55.000000Z
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Wednesday's national election, defeating President John Mahama, electoral commissioner Charlotte Osei said on Friday. "It is my duty and my privilege to declare Nana Akufo-Addo as the president elect of Ghana," she told a news conf...

2016-12-10T00:30:55.000000Z
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region that has been blighted by civil wars and coups. ...

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2016-12-10T01:10:14.000000Z
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc has struck a preliminary deal to buy the 61 percent of British pay-TV firm Sky Plc it does not already own for around $14 billion, five years after a political scandal wrecked a previous bid.

2016-12-10T01:00:26.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.

2016-12-10T00:51:04.000000Z
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday he rejects the outcome of last week's election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow and called for fresh elections.

2016-12-10T00:14:30.000000Z
ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army pressed an offensive in Aleppo on Friday with ground fighting and air strikes in an operation to retake all of the city's rebel-held east that would bring victory in the civil war closer for President Bashar al-Assad.

2016-12-10T00:11:34.000000Z
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - Key U.S. allies in Europe are quietly expressing concern over President-elect Donald Trump's approach to Syria, warning that his pledge to work more closely with Russia, Damascus' main backer, will do little to diminish the terrorist threat emanating from Syria.

2016-12-09T23:30:10.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisors.

2016-12-09T22:52:41.000000Z
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of Dylann Roof watched a video on Friday of the avowed white supremacist confessing to killing nine parishioners at a historic black church in South Carolina and saying he felt he "had to do it."

2016-12-09T22:31:55.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Syria has killed an Islamic State militant linked to the Jan. 7 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, defense officials said on Friday.

2016-12-09T22:29:29.000000Z
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely ask a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world's largest economy, a transition official said on Friday.

2016-12-09T21:22:12.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will pick U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a climate-change skeptic and an advocate for expanded oil and gas development, to run the Interior Department, a Trump aide said on Friday.

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2016-12-10T01:00:41.000000Z
The New YorkerCatherine Zeta-Jones Wishes Kirk Douglas a Happy 100th Birthday with Insta VideoPEOPLE.comKirk Douglas is 100 years old today, and his famous daughter-in-law is celebrating the occasion with a sweet video montage of the actor's life. Catherine Zeta-Jones, who's married to Douglas's son...

2016-12-10T00:38:02.000000Z
Washington PostSecret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White HouseWashington PostThe CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral sys...

2016-12-10T00:08:17.000000Z
PoliticoDemocrats cave and shutdown threat evaporatesPoliticoThey went right up to the brink, but Senate Democrats said on Friday night that they never intended to shut down the federal government over a dispute over coal miners' benefits. Though they took a hard line against a GOP proposal to fund ...

2016-12-10T00:05:22.000000Z
Washington PostWhat is 'big problem' Obama supposedly shared with Trump?BBC NewsDonald Trump said President Barack Obama had told him about a "big problem" for the US, but he wouldn't say what it was. What could it be? "I was actually surprised a little bit," said the president-elect when telling Ne...

2016-12-09T23:54:47.000000Z
WLS-TVChicago Weather: CTA prepares for weekend snow storms; 5-10 inches expectedWLS-TVTwo snow storms are expected to hit the Chicago area over the weekend, which will dump a total of 5 to 10 inches of snow in some areas. (WLS). WLS. By Diane Pathieu, Will Jones and Laura Podesta. Friday, December ...

2016-12-09T23:48:27.000000Z
Fox NewsDylann Roof laughed during church slaying confession to FBIFox NewsDylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. He thought about attacking drug dealers, but they might shoot back. So, he told the FBI, he picked a historic black church in Charles...

2016-12-09T23:48:08.000000Z
Houston ChronicleBalloon pilot had 'witches brew' of meds on day of fatal crashHouston ChronicleThe partial frame of a hot air balloon is visible above a crop field at the scene in a field near Lockhart, Texas where a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people collided with power lines Saturday, Ju...

2016-12-09T23:47:23.000000Z
New York TimesGoldman Sachs to Extend Its Reach in Trump AdministrationNew York TimesGary D. Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, is expected to be named director of the National Economic Council, which oversees economic policy in the White House. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times. Goldman ...

2016-12-09T16:00:00.000000Z
21st Century Fox, the international film and television giant behind hit shows like The Simpsons and Modern Family, has tabled a takeover bid for Sky, the owner of Sky News.

2016-12-09T10:58:00.000000Z
More than 1,000 Russian athletes in 30 summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic sports benefited from a systematic doping cover-up, including many medalists from London 2012.

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2016-12-10T00:42:16.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the Department of Energy to compile a list of all the employees and contractors who worked on a number of different initiatives related to climate change, sparking fears of witch hunts and drawing parallels to McCarthyism.
The request, a copy ...

2016-12-09T23:51:55.000000Z
Here’s a tweet that’ll have every Asian saying “yaaaas.”
Twitter user Helen Hou-Sandí just shut the Twitter game down in response to the racist belief that all Asians look alike. She shared a photo from a recent segment of “Anderson Cooper 360” that features Cooper, CNN counterterrorism analyst Phi...

2016-12-09T23:38:58.000000Z
Coal-state Senate Democrats on Friday appeared to back off their threat to shut down the government over health benefits for retired coal miners after an impasse with Republicans.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who led the push for a one-year extension of health care benefits for miners, railed against...

2016-12-09T23:38:07.000000Z
Miss Susie,
You were 87 years old when Dylann Roof walked into Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot you 11 times. Your aged body took more bullets than any of the other eight churchgoers whose lives were also cut short by an evil white supremacist on June 17, 2015.
That one p...

2016-12-09T23:34:24.000000Z
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Donald Trump tapped another Goldman Sachs guy for a top job, because apparently his strategy for draining the swamp involves a leveraged buyout of said swamp, firing the swamp’s entrenched man...

2016-12-09T23:24:30.000000Z
An suspected thief in California was recently caught in a stinky trap after he picked the wrong house to steal from.
The crappy situation played out like this.
According to KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, Mike Zaremba, of Riverside, was dismayed after three packages were stolen from outside the front door o...

2016-12-09T23:24:19.000000Z
Lettuce turnip the beet.
The Beats and Rhymes Crew, which had a viral hit in 2012 with their song, “Hot Cheetos &amp; Takis,” have changed their tune. Their new song, “Grow Food,” which has over 2.6 million views on Facebook since its video was posted on Dec. 6, is all about urban farming.
“Screamin...

2016-12-09T23:11:51.000000Z
WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump distinguished himself on the campaign trail as the rare Republican candidate promising not to cut Social Security and Medicare.
But Republicans in Congress have other plans for the two popular social insurance programs ― and they are wasting no time rolling ...

2016-12-09T23:10:18.000000Z
A multi-colored gay pride flag hangs in a corner of a bare room in an abandoned Sao Paulo art deco building that was once the headquarters of Brazil’s social security agency.
The room is home to several members of Brazil’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community seeking refuge from discri...

2016-12-09T23:09:38.000000Z
This week, Ohio legislators passed one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country. If Gov. John Kasich signs the bill into law, it would ban abortion whenever a fetal heartbeat is detected ― which can occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The measure does not include any exceptions ...

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2016-12-10T00:38:02.000000Z
Washington PostSecret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White HouseWashington PostThe CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral sys...

2016-12-10T00:08:17.000000Z
PoliticoDemocrats cave and shutdown threat evaporatesPoliticoThey went right up to the brink, but Senate Democrats said on Friday night that they never intended to shut down the federal government over a dispute over coal miners' benefits. Though they took a hard line against a GOP proposal to fund ...

2016-12-09T22:26:07.000000Z
PoliticoGiuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of statePoliticoFormer New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pulled out of the secretary of state sweepstakes late last month, President-elect Donald Trump's transition team said Friday, as Trump has widened his search to select the nation's top diplo...

2016-12-09T17:41:24.000000Z
New York TimesAsia Pacific|South Korea Embarks on Period of Uncertainty With Leader's ImpeachmentNew York TimesSouth Korea's Parliament approved a motion Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, suspending her from office pending a Constitutional Court decision. Motoko Rich, The Times's Tokyo bure...

2016-12-09T01:24:50.000000Z
Washington PostTrump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decadesWashington PostPresident-elect Donald Trump's Twitter attack this week on a union official, followed by his choice of a labor secretary who has criticized new worker protections, has rattled leaders of the American labo...

2016-12-08T08:24:08.000000Z
Washington PostTrumps taps retired Marine general for homeland securityWashington PostWASHINGTON — Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly carved out a reputation as a highly respected, but often outspoken commander who could roil debate with blunt assessments or unpopular directives on issues ranging from w...

2016-12-07T18:46:08.000000Z
ABC NewsDonald Trump Named Time's Person of the YearABC NewsDumb song just got another well it's. Time magazine. And time magazine lists thousand dollars has that person of the year. Not managing editor Nancy Gibbs explains that. I'm think we have ever seen one prison operating in such an unconventi...

2016-12-07T13:39:09.000000Z
NBCNews.comThe Dangerous Game of a President Picking Winners and LosersNBCNews.comFirst Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. Play. Facebook · Twitter · Google Plus; Embed. Donald Trump on using Tw...

2016-12-06T20:23:13.000000Z
New York TimesAngela Merkel Calls for Ban on Full-Face Veils in GermanyNew York TimesChancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Germany should ban full-face veils, and that it would not tolerate any version of Shariah law. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Michael Kappeler/European Pressphoto Age...

2016-12-09T16:53:52.000000Z
Beijing spends billions on moonshot projects such as teleportation and artificial intelligence, hoping to shake off its reputation as a copycat economy and curb dependence on foreign powers. Some are skeptical China will ever regain the innovative lead it enjoyed more than a millennium ago, when it ...

2016-12-09T13:41:23.000000Z
The cartel members meet Saturday with at least four nonmembers whose pledges to coordinate production cuts have propelled prices higher. But thorny details still have to be ironed out.

2016-12-08T17:02:07.000000Z
Drug giant Sanofi has formed an unorthodox partnership with a Harvard professor to seek new drugs in areas that have baffled scientists, one of a number of initiatives by Big Pharma to tap outside expertise. The cultures aren’t easy to merge, through, and the Sanofi project has churned through multi...

2016-12-08T16:06:46.000000Z
The U.S. Surgeon General called surging e-cigarette use by children and young adults “a major public health concern” and recommended increased regulation and taxation of the products in a report set to be released Thursday.

2016-12-07T17:42:10.000000Z
Pfizer has become the latest drugmaker taken to task for high prices after U.K. authorities hit the company with a record $107 million fine over the price of an anti-epilepsy drug.

2016-12-07T05:37:12.000000Z
A Pearl Harbor survivor who volunteers at a museum there will get company this week, as more than 100 other veterans converge on Hawaii to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack.

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2016-12-09T23:12:44.000000Z
Every year The WorldPost joins with MIT collective intelligence research scientist Peter Gloor and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Zurich to measure the most influential thought leaders and the top platforms for the exchange of ideas in the global digital realm. The latest results are reported ...

2016-12-09T23:10:18.000000Z
A multi-colored gay pride flag hangs in a corner of a bare room in an abandoned Sao Paulo art deco building that was once the headquarters of Brazil’s social security agency.
The room is home to several members of Brazil’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community seeking refuge from discri...

2016-12-09T22:59:04.000000Z
Just like last year, the winners of the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest amaze and astound us.
This year the Grand Prize goes to Greg Lecoeur’s jaw-dropping shot of the feeding frenzy that accompanies sardine migration along the Wild Coast of South Africa.
Additiona...

2016-12-09T22:48:57.000000Z
As the influence of fake news on the recent presidential election continues to be a hot topic, one group of students may have found a solution to getting duped by inaccurate sources.
A team of four graduate and undergrad students recently created “FiB,” a Google Chrome extension that verifies the a...

2016-12-09T21:53:09.000000Z
Syrian refugee children celebrated the one-year anniversary of their arrival in Canada by performing a series of heartfelt songs in the House of Commons.
“We thank you Canada, our new home Canada,” CultureLink’s Nai Syrian Children’s Choir sang on Thursday. “We love you, Canada.”
Canadian Prime Mini...

2016-12-09T21:50:31.000000Z
Nationalist protests will be more welcome than anti-government protests from now on. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Veronika Pehe, European University Institute
In Poland, we have become accustomed to the ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), constantly shifting the borders of what is acceptable in a democr...

2016-12-09T21:28:17.000000Z
If there was ever a year that needed Muslim women to show the world just how great America already is, 2016 was it.
Muslim Americans continue to face rising intolerance and Islamophobia as a result, in part, of aggressive attacks on their community by politicians and conservative media. They were a...

2016-12-09T21:01:31.000000Z
Pro tip: Job interviews are job interviews, not opportunities to find love.
Product designer Katarina Batina tweeted a screenshot of an email she received from a man asking her on a date. Ordinarily, asking a woman out via email wouldn’t be problematic, except that Batina had just interviewed this ...

2016-12-09T20:58:41.000000Z
Parents know that kids say the darndest things. And this U.K. mom wants to remember all the magic.
Since May, Lisa Brazier aka “Mummy Piggles” has been posting photos of her daughters on Instagram ― with some of their funniest quotes in the captions. Brazier, who lives in Birmingham, told The Huffi...

2016-12-09T20:50:07.000000Z
Buenos Aires has taken legal action in changing a culture that normalizes sexual harassment.
A law passed by the Argentine capital’s legislative body on Wednesday forbids catcalling and other forms of harassment in public, with perpetrators facing up to a $1,000 peso fine (around $60 USD), according...

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2016-12-10T00:18:00.000000Z
Ronna Romney McDaniel is expected to be President-Elect Trump's selection for chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, according to two RNC sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

2016-12-09T23:41:00.000000Z
Corporate registrations in Delaware show that President-elect Donald Trump shut down some of his companies in the days after the election, including four companies that appeared connected to a possible Saudi Arabia business venture.

2016-12-09T23:30:00.000000Z
The Army has reopened an investigation into a former Green Beret after he admitted during a Fox News interview that he killed a suspected Taliban bombmaker they had held in Afghanistan.

2016-12-09T23:06:00.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is asking Energy Department employees for information about the agency's operations and personnel, including a list of employees and contractors who attended international meetings on climate change over the past five years.

2016-12-09T21:30:00.000000Z
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has removed his name from consideration for a position in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the transition team announced Friday.

2016-12-09T21:21:00.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump detoured from his victory tour Friday to stump for Louisiana Republican Senate candidate John Kennedy ahead of this weekend’s runoff, as the GOP aims to widen its 2017 majority in the upper chamber – and ensure an even friendlier Congress for the incoming president.

2016-12-09T18:08:00.000000Z
Hillary Clinton’s election defeat had many pundits declaring the Clinton era finally over. But a series of meetings with key Democratic donors and leaders – combined with still-fawning press coverage and even a quirky social media project driven by a longtime aide – are raising questions about what'...

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2016-12-10T00:39:09.000000Z
Twin bomb blasts killed at least 30 people at a local market in Madagali, Nigeria, on Friday in an apparent suicide attack carried out by two females, according to military spokesman Maj. Badare Akintoye.

2016-12-09T19:59:02.000000Z
Lawmakers in South Korea's National Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal. The vote was 234-56, with six abstentions.

2016-12-09T19:15:47.000000Z
This coming week, President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to explain to the nation how he plans to handle his sprawling business empire of hotels, resorts and other businesses while he serves as president of the United States.

2016-12-09T16:32:34.000000Z
The Russian state conspired with athletes and sporting officials to undertake a doping program that was unprecedented in its scale and ambition, according to a report commissioned for the World Anti-Doping Agency.

2016-12-09T10:58:00.000000Z
More than 1,000 Russian athletes in 30 summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic sports benefited from a systematic doping cover-up, including many medalists from London 2012.

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2016-12-09T20:46:11.000000Z
Russian energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has called the $6.6 billion fine on the country’s gas giant Gazprom illegal. It was imposed by a Kiev court over its alleged abuse of monopoly power. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T20:18:24.000000Z
A California college student and professor who he recorded criticizing Trump during the class have both fallen under fire amid threats of expulsion and legal action. It is the latest in string of incidences involving teachers expressing their views on President-elect Donald Trump in the classroom. R...

2016-12-09T20:17:46.000000Z
Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has congratulated local union president Chuck Jones for becoming “the most famous labor leader in America” after he was publicly criticized by President-elect Donald Trump. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T20:14:32.000000Z
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill allowing gun owners with proper permits to carry concealed firearms on campuses of public and private colleges and at child day-care centers with permission from a school's board of trustees or a day-care's operator. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T18:49:29.000000Z
A maker of vibrators that can connect to the internet says it will settle a class-action privacy lawsuit that claimed the company gathered data on customers, including app settings that measured vibration levels and how long toys were used. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T18:42:46.000000Z
President-elect Donald Trump may be giving up his salary, but he will be staying on as executive producer of reality show "Celebrity Apprentice". While critics have denounced this as conflict of interest, Trump’s campaign chief compared it to golfing. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T18:41:03.000000Z
Ready, steady, bundle up! Jack Frost is about to dance across the Northeast with a freezing polar vortex making a dramatic return to the US. Chills, snow and rain are expected to make a landfall over the weekend, likely bringing old classics like slippery roads and flight delays. Read Full Article ...

2016-12-09T18:28:11.000000Z
Human Rights Watch is highlighting the dangers of killer robots and calling for a ban on the fully-autonomous weapons ahead of a fifth UN weapons review conference in Geneva next week.
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2016-12-09T17:55:09.000000Z
An Alabama inmate coughed and heaved for 13 minutes during his execution. Prior to his execution he repeatedly challenged the type of drugs which were set to be used, saying they didn’t provide enough sedation. Read Full Article at RT.com

2016-12-09T17:53:36.000000Z
Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ has made a surprising comeback in Italian schoolchildren’s reading lists, 70 years after the fall of the Nazi regime, with some pupils naming it one of their 10 favorite books in the latest nationwide survey. Read Full Article at RT.com

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2016-12-09T23:29:36.472096Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump shut down some of his companies in the days after the election, including four that appeared connected to a possible Saudi Arabia business venture, according to corporate registrations in Delaware....

2016-12-09T22:28:08.628494Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the heat of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused primary rival Ted Cruz of being controlled by Goldman Sachs because his wife, Heidi, previously worked for the Wall Street giant. He slammed Hillary Clinton for receiving speaking fees from the bank....

2016-12-09T21:57:37.311930Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump&amp;apos;s choice for defense secretary was among U.S. military officials who the FBI concluded received anonymous emails from the woman whose affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus led to his downfall, The Associated Press has learned.......

2016-12-09T21:21:48.730079Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump&amp;apos;s continued stake in television&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Celebrity Apprentice&amp;quot; adds to questions about potential conflicts between his personal and public responsibilities, while raising new ones about NBC....

2016-12-09T20:17:31.822561Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump&amp;apos;s transition team is asking Energy Department employees for information about the agency&amp;apos;s operations and personnel, including a list of employees and contractors who attended international meetings on climate change over the p...

2016-12-09T20:06:52.183660Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn to an influential White House economic post, two people informed of the decision said Friday....

2016-12-09T19:13:10.943074Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For conspiracy theorists, the bizarre rumors of &amp;quot;pizzagate&amp;quot; didn&amp;apos;t end when a man brought a gun to a Washington restaurant this week in a misguided attempt to rescue nonexistent child sex slaves. Instead, the shooting sparked discussion that the c...

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2016-10-12T18:38:23.000000Z
Beatings, sleep deprivation, menacing and other brutal tactics have led to persistent mental health problems among detainees held in secret C.I.A. prisons and at Guantánamo.

2016-12-01T22:00:39.000000Z
The ashes of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro were carried Wednesday from the capital, Havana, at the start of a journey that reverses the route Castro took across the island after seizing power in 1959.

2016-12-01T20:17:43.000000Z
The air traffic controller who last spoke with the pilot of LaMia Flight 2933 before the plane crashed told her colleagues she did everything she could to keep the flight's occupants alive.

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2016-12-10T00:23:49.788755Z
PARIS (AP) -- A top French court refused to hand over a Kazakh banker-turned-dissident to Russia despite accusations he embezzled millions, saying it considered the extradition request from Moscow to be &amp;quot;politically motivated.&amp;quot;...

2016-12-10T00:13:23.858263Z
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Gambia&amp;apos;s ruler of more than 22 years announced late Friday that he no longer accepts defeat in the country&amp;apos;s presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded to his rival....

2016-12-09T23:53:04.915784Z
HAVANA (AP) -- Google and the Cuban government have struck a deal giving Cubans faster access to the internet giant&amp;apos;s content, two people familiar with the agreement said Friday....

2016-12-09T22:28:09.932607Z
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Hundreds of people in remote parts of the Solomon Islands have had their homes damaged or destroyed by a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Friday, an aid organization said....

2016-12-09T22:08:14.016691Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Islamic State leader linked to the 2015 attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and assassinations in Tunisia was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, U.S. military officials said Friday....

2016-12-09T21:21:48.647856Z
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- Ghana&amp;apos;s longtime opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidency late Friday on his third run for the office, a race that was largely seen as a referendum on how the incumbent party had managed the economy in this long stable democracy....

2016-12-10T00:38:02.000000Z
Washington PostSecret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White HouseWashington PostThe CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral sys...

2016-12-09T23:56:53.000000Z
NewsweekSyrian Forces Escalate Attack in East AleppoNewsweekThe Syrian army pressed an offensive in Aleppo on Friday with ground fighting and air strikes in an operation to retake all of the city's rebel-held east that would bring victory in the civil war closer for President Bashar al-Assad. "The a...

2016-12-09T21:35:02.000000Z
Washington TimesTrump says Giuliani won't be in cabinetYahoo SportsFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who will not be a member of the new presidential administration, US President-elect Donald Trump announced, arrives at Trump Tower on another day of meetingsNovember 22, 2016 in New York (AFP...

2016-12-09T19:05:09.000000Z
Doping scheme may have touched all Russian athletes - WADAYahoo NewsDec 9 (Reuters) - A report that connected over 1,000 Russian athletes to a state-run doping system only scratched the surface of a drugs culture that may have touched all the country's Olympians, WADA Director General Olivier Niggli...

2016-12-09T17:41:24.000000Z
New York TimesAsia Pacific|South Korea Embarks on Period of Uncertainty With Leader's ImpeachmentNew York TimesSouth Korea's Parliament approved a motion Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, suspending her from office pending a Constitutional Court decision. Motoko Rich, The Times's Tokyo bure...

2016-12-09T15:58:11.000000Z
NPRFar-Right Dutch Politician Found Guilty Of Hate Speech But Will Not Be PenalizedNPRA Dutch court has convicted far-right politician Geert Wilders of inciting discrimination, but decided not to impose any penalty. The case is rooted in comments the lawmaker made at a 2014 rally, when supporters ch...

2016-12-09T16:01:00.000000Z
In early November, an international diving expedition set out from Indonesia into the Sea of Java to find the wrecks of several Dutch warships that sank during World War II.

2016-12-09T03:50:19.000000Z
Transplant American kids to the land of their ancestors and things can get tough. They don't speak the language and they don't like the food. Apparently, American-born pandas have similar feelings about their homeland.

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2016-12-10T00:55:07.000000Z
ACCRA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region that has been blighted by civil wars and coups.

2016-12-10T00:51:04.000000Z
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday he rejects the outcome of last week's election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow and called for fresh elections.

2016-12-10T00:21:34.000000Z
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to become the country's first elected leader to be expelled from office in disgrace.

2016-12-10T00:14:30.000000Z
ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army pressed an offensive in Aleppo on Friday with ground fighting and air strikes in an operation to retake all of the city's rebel-held east that would bring victory in the civil war closer for President Bashar al-Assad.

2016-12-10T00:11:34.000000Z
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - Key U.S. allies in Europe are quietly expressing concern over President-elect Donald Trump's approach to Syria, warning that his pledge to work more closely with Russia, Damascus' main backer, will do little to diminish the terrorist threat emanating from Syria.

2016-12-09T22:31:55.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Syria has killed an Islamic State militant linked to the Jan. 7 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, defense officials said on Friday.

2016-12-09T20:21:29.000000Z
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces captured a neighborhood in east Mosul on Friday, pushing deeper to the heart of Islamic State's Iraq stronghold and destroying three sites where it produced car bombs used in waves of suicide attacks, the campaign's commander said.

2016-12-09T20:11:37.000000Z
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces were hit by two roadside bombings in a single day on Friday that killed six policemen and wounded six in Cairo and the north of the country, security sources and officials said.

2016-12-09T21:31:19.000000Z
Dylann Roof confessed almost immediately to the massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, according to an FBI video shown Friday at his murder trial in Charleston, South Carolina.

2016-12-09T21:09:44.000000Z
Kellyanne Conway on Friday defended President-elect Donald Trump's decision to remain an executive producer on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" even as he takes office, arguing that "presidents have a right to do things in their spare time."

2016-12-09T21:46:00.000000Z
As the campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS rages on, Christian residents of surrounding villages already freed from the terror army's grip have returned to find their homes booby-trapped, in ruins and uninhabitable.

2016-12-09T21:27:00.000000Z
China flew a long-range nuclear-capable bomber outside China for the first time since President-elect Donald Trump spoke with the president of Taiwan, two US officials told Fox News. The dramatic show of force was meant to send a message to the new administration, according to the officials.

2016-12-09T21:00:14.000000Z
A meeting on Saturday between Moscow and Washington is extremely important because it could avoid "massive destruction" if a plan for evacuating rebel fighters and civilians from war-ravaged Aleppo can be worked out, the U.N.'s special envoy to Syria said.

2016-12-09T20:15:14.000000Z
A top court in France refused Friday to hand a Kazakh banker-turned-dissident charged with embezzling billions over to Russia, saying it considered the extradition request from Moscow to be "politically motivated." Mukhtar Ablyazov's lawyers had asked France's Council of State to block his extraditi...

2016-12-09T20:00:12.000000Z
Police have asked a former Serbian foreign minister who was a candidate to be the United Nations' next secretary-general to give a statement in connection with the unresolved killings of two army conscripts in 2004.

2016-12-09T21:26:40.000000Z
Questions about how news outlets reported, or didn’t report, on a rape and murder suspect from Afghanistan underscored a rift over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy on newcomers.

2016-12-09T05:01:23.000000Z
Though at the vanguard of German soccer’s global success, the club takes pride in its local roots, with even its biggest stars happy to take time out to spend a day with fans.

2016-12-08T21:41:08.000000Z
He had accused the country, a British ally, of “puppeteering” in “proxy wars” across the Middle East and of “abusing Islam,” and he received an upbraiding from Prime Minister Theresa May.

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2016-12-09T20:04:20.000000Z
Shelling and mortar fire pounded rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo overnight into Friday, witnesses said, despite a Russian claim that the Syrian army had halted all military activity in the war-torn city.

2016-12-09T14:31:54.000000Z
When Iraqi troops launched the offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS in late October, many families in the city were hopeful. After two years living under the militant group's draconian rule, they believed they would be freed in a matter of days.

2016-12-09T08:53:18.000000Z
A French ISIS operative suspected of enabling a terrorist attack on a tourist beach in Tunisia was targeted by a United States drone strike in late November, according to a source briefed by French intelligence.

2016-12-08T17:12:57.000000Z
World football governing body FIFA is facing legal action in Switzerland over allegations it has been jointly responsible for the mistreatment of migrant workers who are working on projects for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

2016-12-08T16:14:59.000000Z
Egypt has brought into effect an amended law that toughens penalties on those who perform female genital mutilation, a practice that reportedly affects over 90% of Egyptian women, the health ministry announced.

2016-12-08T15:16:00.000000Z
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has accused Saudi Arabia, a longstanding British ally in the Middle East, of engaging in proxy wars, "puppeteering" and "abusing religion" in the pursuit of its political objectives.

2016-12-09T22:49:06.000000Z
With the Parliament in South Korea voting to impeach President Park Geun-hye, the cavalcade of scandals can make it seem like the world’s politicians have suddenly become greedier en masse.

2016-12-08T22:07:31.000000Z
La Ruta de Los Conquistadores, a three-day race across Costa Rica, pits participants against steep climbs, muddy trails and waterways that may or may not contain crocodiles.

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2015-09-23T09:08:37.000000Z
A 27yearold woman jumped out of a moving train with her 10monthold baby and husband after she was allegedly molested by a group of inebriated copassengers in West Bengals Alipurduar police said on Wednesday

2015-09-23T08:10:46.000000Z
An elderly man who became an overnight star when an image of a policeman kicking his typewriter went viral has said he is fed up with all the attention and just wants to go back to typing letters

2015-09-23T07:43:24.000000Z
Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday sounded an alert for people living in lowlying areas and along banks of river Jhelum after water level crossed the flood declaration level of 21 feet at Sangam in south Kashmir due to continuous rains

2015-09-23T06:52:59.000000Z
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced the list of 242 candidates for the Grand Alliance on the last day for filing nominations for the first phase of assembly elections

2015-09-23T06:32:58.000000Z
A 27yearold woman jumped out of a moving train with her 10monthold baby and husband after she was allegedly molested by a group of inebriated copassengers in West Bengals Alipurduar police said on Wednesday

2015-09-23T05:54:41.000000Z
In a postmidnight development the Gujarat High Court directed the state government to find Hardik Patel leader of the reservation agitation after an aide moved a habeas corpus petition alleging that Hardik had been illegally detained by police

2015-09-23T04:57:38.000000Z
Disgruntled BharatiyaJanata Party BJP leaders of Bihars silk city Bhagalpur have petitioned Prime Minister NarendraModi questioning his morale for calling Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi shahzadeshyan urdu word used to address scion of an imperial estatewhen his own party was promoting the shahz...

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2016-04-01T03:16:58.000000Z
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A Virginia state trooper who was engaged in a training exercise at a Richmond bus station died on Thursday after a man pulled out a gun and opened fire before being fatally shot by two police officers, police said.

2016-04-01T00:52:26.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lender GE Capital asked the U.S. government on Thursday to stop designating it as "too big to fail," saying it had shrunk to the point where it would not pose a major threat to the nation's financial stability if it experiences distress.

2016-04-01T00:16:48.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a surprise closed-door visit to the Republican National Committee on Thursday after a tumultuous two days on the campaign trail that included a reversal of his pledge to support the party's nominee.

2016-03-31T19:58:26.000000Z
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An overpass under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on Thursday on to vehicles and street vendors below, killing at least 14 people with more than 100 people feared trapped.

2016-03-31T19:05:12.000000Z
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

2016-03-31T17:39:01.000000Z
PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of workers and high-school students joined protest marches across France on Wednesday to challenge plans to loosen the country's protective labor laws that unions say favor businesses.

2016-03-31T16:10:02.000000Z
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that a report by the al-Hayat newspaper on an agreement between Russia and the United States on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not true.

2016-03-31T14:58:14.000000Z
LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A little-known Russian businessman from St Petersburg has provided properties to multiple women who share one common theme: President Vladimir Putin.

2016-03-31T13:03:44.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debate, including from his White House rivals.

2016-03-30T16:30:03.000000Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has told China it will not recognize an exclusion zone in the South China Sea and would view such a move as "destabilizing," U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said on Wednesday.

2016-12-06T12:11:28.000000Z
Every day Luyanda Ngcobo's routine is the same: It starts with a trip to the back cupboard, where, safely hidden away is a bottle of nevirapine, an anti-retroviral (ARV) pill he has to take twice a day for the rest of his life.

2016-12-09T21:59:57.000000Z
The lawyers have launched a Canadian organization named For the Refugees to raise money for the families and to lobby the Canadian government to give them sanctuary as they come under pressure in Hong Kong

2015-09-23T08:23:05.000000Z
Scientists are slipping 3D cameras into Syria to local activists and residents to scan antiquities A USfunded project aims to provide local conservators with resources to help safeguard relics Inside Syria volunteers scramble to document damage to monuments and confirm what remains

2015-09-23T08:18:42.000000Z
US aerospace giant Boeing has signed deals with Chinese firms to sell 300 aircraft and open a completion centre in the Asian country Chinas official Xinhua news agency reported as President Xi Jinping began his first state visit to the United States

2015-09-23T05:17:51.000000Z
Chinese President Xi Jinping facing a skeptical audience on the first day of a weeklong US visit sought to reassure business and government officials on Tuesday over a long list of irritants from economic reform to cyber attacks human rights and commercial theft

2015-09-23T04:56:26.000000Z
Pope Francis arrived in the United States on Tuesday for his first visit a historic sixday trip during which his focus on consumerism poverty and the marginalized risks appearing as a criticism of American society

2015-09-23T03:45:15.000000Z
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that multiculturalism is bad for the United States adding that immigrants who close themselves off from American culture deny themselves access to economic rewards

2015-09-23T03:33:57.000000Z
A civil lawsuit against Volkswagen was filed Tuesday in Sao Paulo accusing the company of allowing the torture and detention of employees opposed to Brazils former military dictatorship

2015-09-22T18:47:24.000000Z
European Union ministers agreed on Tuesday to relocate 120000 refugees among the bloc to ease the strains on frontline nations like Greece and Italy which are being overwhelmed by the continents ballooning migrant crisis

2015-09-22T18:33:08.000000Z
Gunmen kidnapped two Canadian tourists a Norwegian employee and a Filipina from a luxury resort island in the conflictwracked southern Philippines while other foreigners narrowly escaped police said on Tuesday

2016-12-08T22:07:31.000000Z
La Ruta de Los Conquistadores, a three-day race across Costa Rica, pits participants against steep climbs, muddy trails and waterways that may or may not contain crocodiles.

2016-12-08T21:57:48.000000Z
Officials say surviving fighters could go underground and exploit the economic and political vacuum, threatening not only the country but also its neighbors and possibly Europe.